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Karen Anderson

Standing in line to pick up my registration packet for #nfb25 and enjoying all the conversations. From how to tell if your steak is done the way you want without being able to see, to knowing if fish is fresh based on how it smells, I love #blind people sharing their learned tips.

Hannah Howe

Monday 8 July 1963

The Mini is proving to be a great success in Australia. The Morris 850 and the Morris Mini Cooper recorded 1,861 registrations in May compared with 1,819 for the nearest rivals.

Ten men were arrested last night at a meeting addressed by Oswald Mosley in London’s East End. Over 250 policemen were on guard at the event.

#SocialHistory#History#Cars
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Enara :potion_genderfluid:❔

As the tech transbian of the family, I'm trying to get my mother to regain some of the independence blindness (add an overprotective partner to the mix for maximum effect) took away from her by re-teaching her to use the computer. When she lost her sight she used JAWS or NVDA (I can't remember which one) and she even wrote a couple of books with that, but a fatal update broke compatibility with the program and neither her nor her partner knew how to deal with that situation, so she started relying on other people for computer stuff.
So, fedi people with disabilities, I'm asking for pointers on this. Accessibility software of any kind, if there are updated versions of either JAWS or NVDA that run on modern Windows (don't tell her to delve into Linux, that ain't happening in the near future. One baby step at the time.) or any alternative software to those programs, voice controls, resources for learning, anything. All info is welcome. Thanks in advance!

#blind#software#accessibility
Devin Prater :blind:

From the BRLTTY mailing list:

BRLTTY-6.8 has been released. As usual, it can be downloaded from:

brltty.app/

First, a note to Linux distribution maintainers. We'd very much appreciate it if
you could please update BRLTTY to this release - 6.8 - before upgrading to the
6.16 kernel. This is because of a much needed change within the kernel regarding
how double-width and zero-width characters are rendered on the screen when using
a text console. It couldn't be done in a fully backward-compatible way from
BRLTTY's perspective so, if the 6.16 kernel is being used before BRLTTY is at
least at 6.8, a braille user may notice some unexpected characters - primarily
zero-width spaces - when viewing a screen with double-width and/or zero-width
characters on it.

BRLTTY is (finally) able to properly render a screen that's larger than 255
columns and/or lines. There's one limitation when using a kernel earlier than
6.16 - the location of the cursor can't be determined if it's beyond column
and/or line 255 of the screen, In which case it isn't rendered.

brltty.appBRLTTY - Official Home
#linux#BRLTTY#foss
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

Dear fedi, I am thinking of building-in some LLM scraper bot traps into my website.

One of the ideas is links down near the bottom of each blogpost or page that are hidden in CSS (so that no human would click them) that when clicked immediately put the client IP address on naughty list.

I want to understand better how CSS-hidden links work for #Blind visitors and others using screen readers or other assistive technologies.

The last thing I'd want is to inconvenience any human! :blob0w0:

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Florian

Tis done 🎉
My #youtube channel, formerly known as BlindlyCoding, is now named ViewpointUnseen. This allows me to broaden the content on that channel to include a lot more different types of content, from tutorials for the #blind from a #blindness perspective, tech reviews from that same perspective, #gaming streams as well as reaction content when I find sufficient things to react to.
I think there's a lot of value I can offer to the world at large with stuff that's currently locked inside my head and having a bit more time during the work week allows me to spend more time on #contentCreation. Screen reader tutorials? Hacking streams? Videogames? Reviewing pieces of tech and supplying #accessibility recommendations to users AND developers/creators? Yes, all of that and more. Stay tuned!

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Hello #blind mastodon, particularly anyone who has ever worked with the #humanware #NLS EReaders and #BARD. Partner @RainbowRemedy just received one and is getting it all set up for their use. They've logged into BARD and went to download a book as a test, but no download option appears! There's only the wishlist option and the metadata about the book. In settings, we've selected that both formats should be presented, Braille and Audio. What gives? Do we just have a book that isn't available in Braille as a test?

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